An August 9, 2006 opinion by presiding Judge TS Ellis III and forthcoming ruling has dealt a decisive blow to forces supporting full dismissal of the AIPAC espionage case. Defendants Rosen and Weissman, formerly…
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Neoconservative Policy Front Groups
Radio Interview – KZYX & Z, 90.7, 91.5, Mendocino County Public Radio Grant Smith: “When we look at the tax filings of PNAC, what we notice is that although it is broadly…
A Whole New World by Darren Dahl
Inc Magazine The Middle East never appeared on Michael Connelly’s list of potential new markets when he thought about expanding overseas. Canada seemed like the next logical step for Connelly’s company, New…
Lebanon Burning
America is normally a “can-do” country, but not when it comes to Middle East policy. As a result of two “do-nothing” diplomats, one at the UN, the other in the State Department,…
“Saving Private Ryan” or the “Clean Break” Plan?
VOA Panel Discussion Pedro Rodriguez Diario ABC de Espanol: To me it looks like an amplified version of what happened in Gaza with Hamas last month (June) with the capture of a soldier….
Are the Final Stages of the Neoconservative “Clean Break” Plan Now Underway?
Israel’s extermination of a Palestinian family picnicking on the beach in June has touched off a growing regional conflict as Hamas and Hezbollah launched indiscriminate retaliatory attacks and detentions against the Jewish state. Israel has now unleashed a broad “collective punishment” campaign against critical infrastructure in…
IRmep referenced in “Soft Power: the Means to Success in World Politics”
by Joseph S. Nye, Jr, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government – Harvard University Chapter 2: “Sources of America’s Soft Power” pp. 43-44 The effects of the Iraq War should not…
The Ahmadinejad Letter and the Iran Nuclear Confrontation
VOA Panel Discussion Grant Smith, IRmep: I think their response was almost inevitable. We can see in the letter that Ahmadinejad at first tries to show some commonalties, and nexus between religions….
TheIsrael Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
Letter – London Review of Books We wrote ‘The Israel Lobby’ in order to begin a discussion of a subject that had become difficult to address openly in the United States (LRB,…
HR 4681 and the Congressional Siege on Palestinians
Policy Research Note Punishing the Victim AIPAC’s 290 Congressional co-sponsors and staffers are facing massive opposition in their bid to pass punitive legislation on Palestinians. An array of organized opposition from the American…
Mainstream Media: Spinning the AIPAC Spy Case as a 1st Amendment Issue
The Washington Post Finally gets its Story Straight On Saturday, April 29, 2006 the Washington Post issued a correction to a Walter Pincus story about the AIPAC espionage case at the insistence of IRmep….
Let The AIPAC Spy Trial Begin:
Why Prosecuting Weissman and Rosen Matters Today Judge T.S. Ellis III offered a rare second opportunity to the Rosen and Weissman defense team. They again made their case that the indictment of the…
The Bush Administration’s Final Surprise:
Chinese or Russian Nuclear Missiles Based in Iran Bush’s biggest surprise yet may be just around the corner. Like the other “challenges” it will largely be a disaster of his own making:…
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
Harvard-Chicago U Report The U.S. national interest should be the primary object of American foreign policy. For the past several decades, however, and especially since the Six Day War in 1967, the…
The Israeli Elections and US Lobby
BBC World Service Interview Carlos Chirinos: “Can the US recover some of its influence in the region through the new Israeli elections?” Grant Smith: “The only way the US is going to recover its…
2006 US National Security Strategy and Iran
VOA Panel Discussion Jose Carreno El Universal Mexico: In what capacity is the Bush administration able to carry forward…the Bush government is so weak domestically? Grant Smith, IRmep: Bush continues to be the US…
Israel Lobby Exposes US to Avoidable Hostility Overseas while Smearing Academic Critics as “anti-Semitic” –Mearsheimer and Walt Study Accurate
Middle East Academic Survey Research Exposition The Middle East Academic Survey Research Exposition (MEASURE) project polled Middle East academics about the Walt and Mearsheimer report titled “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign…
Deadly Dogma: How Neoconservatives Broke the Law to Deceive America
When does Rhetoric become Wire Fraud? “Intellectual Movement” or Organized Crime Syndicate? The “Neoconservative” movement has had a profound effect on America. Neoconservative ideas of military preemption, higher military spending, and iron…
Dubai Ports World Comes to America:
IRmep Questions and Answers about the Deal Question: Why is DP World suddenly interested in US ports?Answer: It makes a lot of sense that DP World is looking to operate directly in the US. According…
George Washington’s Insight About US Middle East Policy
“….so likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no…